Don't worry. They're already doing this in news broadcasts, too. Wasn't this on/. a while back? You know, CBS plastering their logo all over the place, replacing an NBC viewscreen with the CBS logo, etc.
I read a book way back in elementary school (1980's) about somebody in the 21st century who created a computer system to completely simulate sporting events. You could pick and choose players from any era and pit them against one another. Since it's all just "pixels", with enough processing power, it wasn't possible to tell the illusion from the reality. How are away from this are we? Kind of like the matrix, except we're just plugged into our TV's instead of something in the back of our heads. How long before anything you see or hear on TV could just have easily come out of someone's computer as a live camera? We know that CBS has been doing this on a small scale already.
Man, you could come up with some pretty good conspiracy theories really quickly with this ammo... I'm sure some/.er will!
Cheers!
I just discovered recently that Tennessee (and a lot of other states, btw) has a telemarketer-do-not-call list. I'm moving to a different county, so I've decided to put my new phone number on the do-not-call list. Now I'm just dying for a telemarketer to call me. It's an automatic $2000 fine. I don't think I get any of that, though.
So hopefully I'll have fewer telemarker calls. And if not, some telemarketers will be helping to keep my taxes low!
I'll kind of miss getting to be rude to them, though... Once I was eating dinner when I got a call from a telemarketer. After she started into her speech, I just set the phone down on the table. About five minutes later I picked it up and she was saying "hello...? hello...?" Then there was the time I was working on my car when my wife called me to the phone. I was pretty sure it was a telemarketer, so I answered, "Hi, this is Robert, if you're selling, I'm not buying. What can I do for you today?" The telemarketer didn't say a single word, just hung up! I'll miss that...
...are going to have a heyday with this. I can just imagine the responses... "Hey, you can't just go blasting rocks for something as useless as scientific discovery! Imagine if there are little space micro-organisms that might go extinct!" As if there is a shortage of comets. (asteroids? which was it...?) Well, I'm just glad that most of the environmental wackos still live in California as opposed to, say, Tennessee where I live and there are 3 nukes, 4 hydros and 4 coal-fired power plants within 45 miles of where I live. You can bet that we're going to have electricity out here for a while! 'course, maybe I should be careful, since most of the Slashdot readership is probably living in California and are therefore a bunch of liberal environmental wackos! But don't come chasing me down in Tennessee, I have a gun!
Rabbit trails...
Asteroid mining is not PRIMARILY to send the stuff back to Earth!!! It's mostly to avoid the extreme expense of sending stuff from Earth to orbit. If anyone can figure how to get water for a four-person crew out of an asteroid for less that $300,000/day, then that's worth pursuing. Ferrying stuff from near-Earth asteroids to orbit- or moon-based manufacturing could/should be MUCH cheaper than sending it up from Earth.
I respectfully disagree with you. I think the reason Linux is and will remain to be popular for embedded applications is that each vendor doesn't have to recreate the wheel. In this case, Axis didn't have to write an operating system for their camera, or a http or ftp server either. Their little web server is some open source web server (no, not Apache). So rather than create an OS and a web server, they just pull together what they need from the open source community. After all, isn't interchangeable parts what made the whole industrial revolution thing work in the first place?
Actually... the docs that come with the camera lay out several methods of routing the camera's images through a more powerful web server, so the only thing pulling images from the camera is the web server, which then dishes them out to whomever. I'm not using mine this way (it's not accessible to the outside world), but it should work.
I'm using one of the Axis 2100 Cameras for security and it really works great. It runs 24/7. I capture the images on a Linux box and filter them out so I'm left with only images with "motion" in them. Works great. Everything's been rock solid for the last month, since the last change I made to my motion detection software. Now I just need a bigger hard drive for all those images...
What can't we make with these things nowadays? Looks like a lot of neat/cool ideas, but I expect that like most neat/cool ideas, about a thousand ideas from now, somebody will actually come up with a real use for DNA. (other that it's obvious intended use!)
The SpringBoard slot is different from CompactFlash because it NEEDS TO BE. The problem with CompactFlash, and the reason Handspring avoided it, is that it would require additional software to be loaded to the Visor to use it. Add a CF modem, you have to add the software to use it. Add a springboard modem, the software is there. It's 100% plug-and-play and it works. When you buy a Springboard for your Visor, it won't come with an "installation and driver disk". It doesn't need one.
Just because real people and animals die/are killed every day doesn't mean that it's okay to train minors in violence!!!! If you think it's so terrible that so many millions of pigs wind up on dinner plates, then try to educate people to your point of view. You won't convince many of them, but you can try. For the record, I raised some hogs this winter and cured a ham myself. Smoked it the other day and it was the best pig muscle I've ever eaten! However, I think kids should be protected from violence. And it doesn't take a rocket scientist to figure out that if a kid becomes a crack shot in the virtual world, with no reguard for life, it might not be a large step to becoming a crack shot in real life with no reguard for life. Think about it.
I am using a couple AXIS netcams -- one Axis 2100, self-contained camera, and one AXIS 2401 camera server connected to a CCTV camera. I'm using the 2100 indoors and the other outdoors (the camera is outside, server inside). At any rate, they both work great.
For my application, I wanted to be able to take pictures when there was motion. The cameras have inputs for connecting external triggers, but I decided to try to do it in software. At first I was using some gimp-fu stuff, but it was too slow, so I rewrote it using libjpeg. It's a little rough, but it gets the job done. If anyone wants it, email me and I'll send it to you.
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Don't worry. They're already doing this in news broadcasts, too. Wasn't this on /. a while back? You know, CBS plastering their logo all over the place, replacing an NBC viewscreen with the CBS logo, etc.
I read a book way back in elementary school (1980's) about somebody in the 21st century who created a computer system to completely simulate sporting events. You could pick and choose players from any era and pit them against one another. Since it's all just "pixels", with enough processing power, it wasn't possible to tell the illusion from the reality. How are away from this are we? Kind of like the matrix, except we're just plugged into our TV's instead of something in the back of our heads. How long before anything you see or hear on TV could just have easily come out of someone's computer as a live camera? We know that CBS has been doing this on a small scale already. Man, you could come up with some pretty good conspiracy theories really quickly with this ammo... I'm sure some /.er will!
Cheers!
I just discovered recently that Tennessee (and a lot of other states, btw) has a telemarketer-do-not-call list. I'm moving to a different county, so I've decided to put my new phone number on the do-not-call list. Now I'm just dying for a telemarketer to call me. It's an automatic $2000 fine. I don't think I get any of that, though. So hopefully I'll have fewer telemarker calls. And if not, some telemarketers will be helping to keep my taxes low! I'll kind of miss getting to be rude to them, though... Once I was eating dinner when I got a call from a telemarketer. After she started into her speech, I just set the phone down on the table. About five minutes later I picked it up and she was saying "hello...? hello...?" Then there was the time I was working on my car when my wife called me to the phone. I was pretty sure it was a telemarketer, so I answered, "Hi, this is Robert, if you're selling, I'm not buying. What can I do for you today?" The telemarketer didn't say a single word, just hung up! I'll miss that...
...are going to have a heyday with this. I can just imagine the responses... "Hey, you can't just go blasting rocks for something as useless as scientific discovery! Imagine if there are little space micro-organisms that might go extinct!" As if there is a shortage of comets. (asteroids? which was it...?) Well, I'm just glad that most of the environmental wackos still live in California as opposed to, say, Tennessee where I live and there are 3 nukes, 4 hydros and 4 coal-fired power plants within 45 miles of where I live. You can bet that we're going to have electricity out here for a while! 'course, maybe I should be careful, since most of the Slashdot readership is probably living in California and are therefore a bunch of liberal environmental wackos! But don't come chasing me down in Tennessee, I have a gun! Rabbit trails...
Asteroid mining is not PRIMARILY to send the stuff back to Earth!!! It's mostly to avoid the extreme expense of sending stuff from Earth to orbit. If anyone can figure how to get water for a four-person crew out of an asteroid for less that $300,000/day, then that's worth pursuing. Ferrying stuff from near-Earth asteroids to orbit- or moon-based manufacturing could/should be MUCH cheaper than sending it up from Earth.
I respectfully disagree with you. I think the reason Linux is and will remain to be popular for embedded applications is that each vendor doesn't have to recreate the wheel. In this case, Axis didn't have to write an operating system for their camera, or a http or ftp server either. Their little web server is some open source web server (no, not Apache). So rather than create an OS and a web server, they just pull together what they need from the open source community. After all, isn't interchangeable parts what made the whole industrial revolution thing work in the first place?
Actually... the docs that come with the camera lay out several methods of routing the camera's images through a more powerful web server, so the only thing pulling images from the camera is the web server, which then dishes them out to whomever. I'm not using mine this way (it's not accessible to the outside world), but it should work.
I'm using one of the Axis 2100 Cameras for security and it really works great. It runs 24/7. I capture the images on a Linux box and filter them out so I'm left with only images with "motion" in them. Works great. Everything's been rock solid for the last month, since the last change I made to my motion detection software. Now I just need a bigger hard drive for all those images...
What can't we make with these things nowadays? Looks like a lot of neat/cool ideas, but I expect that like most neat/cool ideas, about a thousand ideas from now, somebody will actually come up with a real use for DNA. (other that it's obvious intended use!)
The SpringBoard slot is different from CompactFlash because it NEEDS TO BE. The problem with CompactFlash, and the reason Handspring avoided it, is that it would require additional software to be loaded to the Visor to use it. Add a CF modem, you have to add the software to use it. Add a springboard modem, the software is there. It's 100% plug-and-play and it works. When you buy a Springboard for your Visor, it won't come with an "installation and driver disk". It doesn't need one.
Just because real people and animals die/are killed every day doesn't mean that it's okay to train minors in violence!!!! If you think it's so terrible that so many millions of pigs wind up on dinner plates, then try to educate people to your point of view. You won't convince many of them, but you can try. For the record, I raised some hogs this winter and cured a ham myself. Smoked it the other day and it was the best pig muscle I've ever eaten! However, I think kids should be protected from violence. And it doesn't take a rocket scientist to figure out that if a kid becomes a crack shot in the virtual world, with no reguard for life, it might not be a large step to becoming a crack shot in real life with no reguard for life. Think about it.
I am using a couple AXIS netcams -- one Axis 2100, self-contained camera, and one AXIS 2401 camera server connected to a CCTV camera. I'm using the 2100 indoors and the other outdoors (the camera is outside, server inside). At any rate, they both work great.
For my application, I wanted to be able to take pictures when there was motion. The cameras have inputs for connecting external triggers, but I decided to try to do it in software. At first I was using some gimp-fu stuff, but it was too slow, so I rewrote it using libjpeg. It's a little rough, but it gets the job done. If anyone wants it, email me and I'll send it to you.